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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK O. GLAVE, OF IRVING PARK, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,259, dated J' une *7, 1892. Application iiled July 20, 1891. Serial No. 400.174. (No model.)

.To coZZ whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. GLAvE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Irving Park, in the county of Oook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ealing-Tags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My improved tag is designed particularly for use on hay and cotton bales and bales of similar material bound together by Wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a tag embodying one form of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar View of another form. Fig. 3 is a similarview of a modification of the means for engaging the balewire and the tag.

A is the body of the tag, and A is a lobe integral with the body A. Said body and lobe are made of sheet. metal.

A2 is a groove in the face of the body A opposite the lobe A and extending lengthwise of said tag, preferably along the middle line thereof and at right angles to said lobe. The wall of the groove and the face of the bodyA together form at each side of said groove a shoulder d2. One of the functions of the lobe A is to stilfen the body A, so as to prevent the latter from folding lengthwise when the wire which binds the bale bears upon the tag. Another function of said lobe is to aid in keeping the tag in engagement with the Wire which binds the bale. B is such a Wire. The tag is inserted between the bale and the wire B before the latter is finally tightened, said wire being made to rest in the groove A2. As the groove is shallow, the tag might recede from the wire sufficiently to fall out of place were the lobe A absent; but at this time the lobe A extends into or against the hay or cotton or other material of which the bale is composed or to be composed when completed and presses the bodyA outward against the wire B, so that the latter is forcibly retained in the groove A2. When the wire Bis subsequently further tightened, the lobe A sinks farther into the hay or cotton until the tag is well secured.

rlhe groove A2 serves a twofold purposerst, to effect the engagement with the wire by the shoulders a2, and, second, to stil't'en the body A, so as to prevent the latter from folding crosswise.

As a substitute means for effecting an engagement between the tag and Wire, shoulders equivalent to the shoulders a2 may be formed by turning up small lobes a3 of the metal of the bodyA at opposite sides of the line in which the wire is to lie, as shown in Fig. 3. A lobe A may be placed at each end of the tag; but this will require more sheet Inetal and will also make it more difcult to pack the tags closely for transportation.

I claim as my inventionl. A metallic bale-tag consisting of the body A and the `lobe A', integral with the body A, the face of the body A opposite the lobe A being provided with shoulders aligned in a direction at right angles to said lobe for engaging the Wire of the bale, substantially as shown and described.

2. A metallic bale-tag composed of the body A and lobe A', integral with said body A, said body A having a groove A2, with shoulders 0.2 ext-ending about midway ot' said body at right angles to said lobe, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature, in

presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of June, 1891.

FREDERICK C. GLAVE. Witnesses:

FRANK L. STEVENS, M. G. ARMSTRONG. 

